Engineering Manager
Fuel50, New Zealand
Job Description
Our Engineering team is growing and we are looking to add an additional Engineering Manager to our leadership team. Are you an experienced leader who has led multiple squads and tech team leads? Do you have proven ability to influence Product teams and drive engineering excellence? The goal is to provide your cross-functional squads with the tools and technologies to deploy services independently while at the same time partner with our existing Engineering Manager to develop and maintain shared services that are cross-cutting over multiple teams.
This role will be reporting to the Chief Technology Officer but will also be working closely with other Engineering leaders and working in an Agile environment. There will be a focus on enabling software engineers to build scalable applications with high quality, speed and performance. This will mean figuring out common problems, understanding developer pain points and friction areas that cause slow down development, using both quantitative and qualitative data to drive decision making.
This is a leadership role which will have a combination of getting things done through others and some technical hands-on work. You will be involved in creating a world class product with involvement in all aspects of the product lifecycle. A key component of this role is acting as an enabler of Product Engineering teams, assisting them to get their solutions deployed to different cloud environments, and enabling them to have the tools to monitor the performance of their solutions once live.
Requirements
- 6+ years of Engineering Management experience (or equivalent engineering leadership experience), leading lead tech team leads and multiple squads.
- You'll have boat loads of initiative and enjoy being proactive, you are able to quickly identify pragmatic solutions
- Communication will be a key strength, you'll be able work effectively with people from cross-functional areas amp; be skilled at establishing cohesive business-centric solutions
- You enjoy collaborating amp; motivating people, doing 1:1's, coaching, mentoring. You know how to get the best out of people and what makes them 'tick'.
- You've worked in a SaaS environment where being laser-focussed on prioritization of work streams is essential
- You have good knowledge of software architecture principles and design patterns
- You're well versed in Agile - comfortable leading Sprint planning meetings.
About Fuel50
Fuel50 is an international, high-growth tech company. Our award-winning AI talent marketplace platform exists to improve the lives and careers of people everywhere by empowering forward-thinking companies to deploy career growth and talent mobility initiatives to attract and retain talent while boosting engagement and productivity. In other words, we are at the forefront of changing how people work and how organizations empower their people.
Our tech is global and has touched careers across 100+ companies in 13+ languages and 25+ countries. Our clients are some of the biggest brands in their respective industries. And, most importantly, we practice what we preach and believe everyone should be in a job they love (including you!).
Fuel50 is immensely proud of our strong team culture, where our people (or Fuellies) come first. Our vision and values are inclusive and transparent and built upon quarterly business objectives that drive our growth, encourage goal setting, and celebrate milestones every step of the way.
The Fuel50 vision has resonated with investors across NZ, Australia, UK, and the USA - supporting our global growth and helping us become the pioneers in this fast-growing talent space.
We are also a socially responsible company. We work with charities that help women and minority groups land on their feet through career coaching and support.
Benefits
As well as our day-to-day responsibilities, all Fuellies play an integral part in growing our culture with us and ensuring that Fuel50 remains an inspirational and amazing place to work. Some additional benefits are:
- Day off on your birthday, your Fuel50 anniversary and an end of year celebration day.
- 4 "Refuel" days - a chance to take a day off once a quarter to rest, relax and refuel yourself.
- Employee Stock Options Plan (ESOP).
- Flexible working times and remote working (as above) - we're very supportive of school commitments, traveling in off-peak hours, looking after the kids, and all that jazz.
- Investing in you with career and development planning, using our very own Fuel50 software and online Fuellie University.
- A very progressive parental leave policy - get extra flexibility and time off on top of what your local government already mandates.
- Comprehensive fully subsidised Health Insurance with Southern Cross